from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking)

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Examples

A successful patternmaker and, eventually, a patent-earning designer of cast-iron stoves, Rohlfs changed his Brooklyn City Directory listing from "patternmaker" to "actor" in 1881 and married the novelist Anna Katharine Green in 1884.